Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty (2023) Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama’s Death Row. Katie Owens-Murphy (Ed.). Vanderbilt University Press
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San Diego State University
United States
Abstract
Paul Kaplan reviews Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama’s Death Row edited by Katie Owens-Murphy
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Author Biography
PAUL KAPLAN is a Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University. His primary research areas are capital punishment and cultural criminology. His work has appeared in journals such as the Law & Society Review, Theoretical Criminology, Race and Justice, Law & Social Inquiry, and Crime, Media, Culture. His book, with Daniel LaChance, Crimesploitation: Crime, Punishment, and Pleasure on Reality Television was published by Stanford University Press in 2022. His previous book, Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment was published by Lexington Books in 2012. He is the co-creator, with Brian Goeltzenleuchter, of the Art | Crime Archive: www.artcrimearchive.net. Dr. Kaplan is the former President of the Western Society of Criminology (2013-2014). He received his PhD in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. Prior to entering academics, he worked as a mitigation investigator on capital cases.